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2. Black in Latin America
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Gates,Henry Louis,Jr (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- New York: New York University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 259 p, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. set out on a quest to discover how Latin Americans of African descent live now, and how the countries of their acknowledge—or deny—their African past; how the fact of race and African ancestry play themselves out in the multicultural worlds of the Caribbean and Latin America. Starting with the slave experience and extending to the present, Gates unveils the history of the African presence in six Latin American countries—Brazil, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mexico, and Peru—through art, music, cuisine, dance, politics, and religion, but also the very palpable presence of anti-black racism.
3. Diáspora negra no Brasil
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Heywood,Linda M. (Author) and Faustino,Oswaldo (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Language:
- Portuguese
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- São Paulo: Editora Contexto
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- Portuguese translation of Linda Heywood, Central Africans and cultural transformations in the American diaspora selections (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002)., 222 p., Studies the importance of Central African culture to the cultures of the Americas since the Atlantic slave trade. Focusing on the Kongo/Angola culture zone, the book illustrates how African peoples re-shaped their cultural institutions as they interacted with Portuguese slave traders up to 1800, then follows Central Africans through all the regions where they were taken as slaves and recaptives.
4. Espírito Santo: História de suas lutas e conquistas
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Moraes,Neida Lúcia (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2002
- Published:
- Vitória: Artgraf
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 311 p, Sítese histórica que aborda todas as etapas da história do Espírito Santo: a ocupação original pelas tribos nativas, as capitanias hereditárias, a escravidão, a presença dos jesuítas, e o impacto dos ciclos económicos na região. Recupera a atuação de personagens como Vasco Fernandes Coutinho (o primeriro donatário), e a visita de DOm Pedro II em 1860.;
5. Nina S. de Friedemann: cronista de disidencias y resistencias
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Rodríguez,Jaime Arocha (Editor) and Quintero Barrera,Rosa Patricia (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Language:
- Spanish
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas, Centro de Estudios Sociales, Grupo de Estudios Afrocolombianos
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- Papers from a seminar held Oct. 28-29, 2004, at the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia., 293 p., A collection of personal tributes to the life and work of Nina S. de Friedemann, as well as writings related to her research on the black population in Colombia.
6. Slavery in Brazil
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Klein,Herbert S. (Author) and Luna,Francisco Vidal (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- New York: Cambridge University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 364 p., Although Brazilians have incorporated many of the North American debates about slavery, they have also developed a new set of questions about slave holding: the nature of marriage, family, religion, and culture among the slaves and free colored; the process of manumission; and the rise of the free colored class during slavery. It is the aim of this book to introduce the reader to this latest research, both to elucidate the Brazilian experience and to provide a basis for comparisons with all other American slave systems.
7. Uma história da cultura afro-brasileira
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Fraga Filho,Walter (Author) and Albuquerque,Wlamyra Ribeiro de (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Language:
- Portuguese
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- São Paulo: Moderna
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 120 p.